Tensions escalated on the southern border today, Wednesday, following the targeting of two Israeli army positions in Al-Malkiya and Al-Biyaad opposite Aitaroun and Bledes. The Israeli army responded by shelling the outskirts of the two towns with phosphorous and cluster munitions. The Israeli army stated that "our forces attacked a 'cell' that attempted to launch anti-tank rockets at the Lebanese border." Meanwhile, Hezbollah announced that it targeted both "the Beiyad Blida site with appropriate weapons and achieved direct hits, and the newly established command post of the Israeli Zer'it Battalion, as well as its vehicles and troops in Khillat, causing confirmed casualties." Additionally, the "Hadab al-Bustan site was targeted with artillery shells, achieving direct hits."
Several mines exploded in the "Bir Shibai" area on the outskirts of the town of Blida due to a fire in the area caused by shelling with illumination rounds from the Israeli army, which led to a large fire. Israeli media reported that an anti-tank missile was launched at the "Ramim" mountains in the Upper Galilee, to which the Israeli army responded with artillery fire. Calm prevailed in the western and central sectors of the villages this morning, following intense and sporadic Israeli shelling last night that targeted several villages adjacent to the Blue Line from Naqoura in the west to Ramieh in the east.
Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee announced that "during the night hours, the Israeli army shot down a surface-to-air missile launched from within Lebanon toward a IDF drone, and the planes struck the source of fire from which the missile was launched." The Israel Defense Forces shot down a surface-to-air missile last night that had been launched from within Lebanon toward an IDF drone and struck the source of fire from which the missile was launched, in addition to the cell that launched it.
